Re: NetBSD on MacBook 4.1

[סטֵפָן פָּבִיקֵבִיק <theanapplegeek%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hmm, my Wi-Fi card seems to be BCM4321. Here's from lspci from linux:
Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

I also tried NDIS, but the NDIS convertor program doesn't seem to work
well. It produced a *bad* header file. When I tried compiling it, it
gave me some errors. Is it possible to compile a NDIS module for
NetBSD 6 modular kernel?

If anyone is able to look up the Broadcom STA driver for Linux, here
is a link: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php/

Thanks, God bless!

On 9 August 2012 18:10, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On 9 August 2012 10:42, סטֵפָן פָּבִיקֵבִיק 
> <theanapplegeek%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> Actually I can't really boot FreeBSD nor DragonflyBSD, because they give me
>> panic on ACPI, and even with disabled ACPI, DragonflyBSD doesn't boot,
>> FreeBSD 64 bit will boot from time to time, but when I had PC-BSD (32 bit)
>> there was some partial success in booting, but Wi-Fi never worked. I even
>> upgraded to 9.1 BETA, but didn't work.
>>
>> I will also try OpenBSD these days, if I get my drive to read the OpenBSD
>> CD, because it doesn't want to read CDs. Only DVDs. I have NetBSD on DVD,
>> and that's how I installed it.
>
> OK, so its quite possible that none of the BSDs currently support your
> BCM4306 rev3 wireless chipset.
>
> I don't know how difficult it would be to support - certainly someone
> could look at the Linux driver and compare how it drives a BCM4306
> rev3 compared to earlier chipsets. It *might* be easy or it night be a
> nightmare.
>
> In the shorter term one option could be a USB mini wifi dongle - (the
> ones that stick out about 5mm from the machine). They tend to start
> from around $5 on eBay but again I don't know which chipsets would be
> supported.
>
> Actually at that price I've just ordered one myself to have a play...